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From Lawernce Lessig:

Newsweek and The Morning News are abuzz about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and its relation to Eldred v. Ashcroft. Slashdot has an opinion, too.

Guess what? I've got an opinion too. I think its great that the media is calling the entertainment industry out on the carpet. They've been poaching for too long from behind their government regulated isolation. The big problem is: even when they do rework ideas, they do a lousy job of it:

"Based upon the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill," reads the credit, as though 20th Century Fox is ashamed to say its League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comes instead from a mere comic book. Suffice it to say that the comic opts to speak its mind, whereas the big-screen adaptation would prefer to blow your brains out of your ear with a rather loud BOOM. Comic books, which have long suffered at the bottom of the popular-culture food chain, slowly crawl heavenward, while the movies sink further and further into whatever lies beneath the cellar. Readers of Moore's series, initially about a Victorian Age Justice League cobbled together to retrieve an anti-gravity device, will look at the screen and recognize little of what they see. Instead, they will feel betrayed and bored and -- worst of all -- condescended to; those unfamiliar with the premise will wonder what's the bother at all.

Graphic novel is actually the proper term, and I have long been a fan of Alan Moore's work, especially The Watchmen. Someone needs to do a graphic novel of a modern day justice league that rids the world of entertainment industy evil doers like the RIAA.